Background*

Mr. Sohaib Abbasi has been the Chief Executive Officer and President of Informatica Corporation since July 20, 2004. Mr. Abbasi served as an Interim Chief Marketing Officer of Informatica Corporation from November 2007 to January 2008. He is an enterprise software veteran with a demonstrated track record of identifying and realizing enterprise software growth opportunities. He served as a Senior Vice President of Oracle Corporation. He joined Oracle Corporation in 1982 ... when it was a 30-person startup. Mr. Abbasi served as the Senior Vice President of two major Oracle divisions, Oracle Tools until 2003 and Oracle Education from 1994 to 2000, the industry's second-largest IT training organization. In 1985, he envisioned and launched the Oracle Tools business. Prior to leading the Oracle Tools business, Mr. Abbasi helped start and build Oracle sales operations in 13 Midwestern states in the U.S. as manager of technical sales support. He began his software career at Professional Computer Resources. He has been the Chairman of Informatica Corporation since March 2005. He has been a Director of Red Hat, Inc., since March 28, 2011 and Informatica Corporation since February 3, 2004. Mr. Abbasi received a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1980, where he has endowed a professorship and a fellowship.

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